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SOA Made Simple

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684163
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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SOA Made Simple
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding the Problem FREE CHAPTER 2. The Solution 3. Service Identification and Design 4. Classification of Services 5. The SOA Platform 6. Solution Architectures 7. Creating a Roadmap, How to Spend Your Money and When? 8. Life Cycle Management 9. Pick your Battles 10. Methodologies and SOA Index

What is a service?


SOA is about services. So, let us start there. What is a service? Informally, and in the broadest sense of the word, a service is something useful a provider does for a consumer. Products can be considered a service too. Services can be paid for since the producer has created added value during their production. A service can be something tangible like a carton of milk, a car, a new house but also something intangible such as travel insurance or medical treatment. Services can be simple like fixing a bike. However, there are also more complex services such as purchasing a new smartphone together with a flexible phone plan including 300 free text messages a month, and the accompanying advice from a provider's sales representative. These more complex services are thus composed of various other services.

In short, a service is an economic term to describe the goods and services that organizations and people produce, sell to one another, and buy from each other. Services...

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